"Your sister's been found dead, Scarlet... I'm sorry."

These words pounded her heart like a nail. Claire was only nine years old and had her whole life ahead of her, and now some monster has took her. Scarlet cuddled Dina, her mother so tight, the embrace almost taking the pain away. As the day went on, Scarlet's eyes were so red and puffy from all the crying, she had tired herself out. Slipping under her duvet, Scarlet sunk into her comfortable bed and closed her eyes, blocking the thoughts out and hoping her dreams would take her away to somewhere peaceful...

/

Her eyes opened and Scarlet shot upright in her bed, her skin sweaty. She pushed her hair out of her face and looked out the window, the weather being dark and foggy. She hesitantly got out of her bed and walked out her room, heading downstairs to get a glass of water. As she reached the hallway downstairs, she seen her mother peering out of the glass door.

"Mom, what's wrong?" Scarlet asked, curious

Dina gasped and turned around, staring at her daughter. "Scarlet, what are you doing here?"

"It's our house..."

"Right," Dina muttered, "You should go back upstairs to bed"

"I'm just getting a gla-" Scarlet was interrupted as a sudden loud inhumane shriek filled with pain echoed through the streets from outside. Both women quickly opened the door and walked out to the suburban street, a sudden strange feeling filling both of them. There was a commotion going on as six of their neighbours were also outside. Martin and his wife Lana, Janet and her husband Wayne, and Joe and his teenage daughter Elle. Laid on the ground, Martin was surrounded by a pool of blood and his severed right arm a couple of feet from the rest.

"What happened?!" Dina asked, running over to her neighbours, Scarlet following after her.

Lana just looked at Dina, tears in her eyes and shaking her head, "He was attacked... by something"

"Something?" Scarlet asked

"I don't know, it was just so fast..." Lana whimpered as Dina hugged her.

Joe pulled out a set of keys, "Look, let's get in my van and we'll drive him to the hospital! We can't help him". He handed Elle the keys as she ran over and started up the van, Lana opened the back doors as Wayne and Joe picked up the bleeding Martin and put him in the back of the van, Lana jumping in beside him and holding him tight, Dina also went into the back of the van. Scarlet was about to go, before she seen Janet in a daze, staring off into the distance.

"Hey, we have to go" Scarlet told her.

"It was a monster..." Janet mumbled

"What?"

Dina then stepped back out the van, "Scarlet, Janet, come on! We have to leave now.", and quickly, the two women entered into the van with the rest as Elle began driving out of the street.

/

Driving to the hospital, Scarlet stared out of the foggy window, seeing that the streets were empty, which was very unusual as there's always someone. Lights were turned off everywhere, the streetlights the only thing lighting up outside. An eerie silence just filled the streets and the roads, like they were the only ones in the world. "Mom, where is everyone? What's happening?"

"I don't know, honey..." Dina said, also looking outside.

The car pulled over as Elle looked back, "We're at the hospital, I'll run in and get a wheelchair", she then left the van and ran in first. Joe opened the back doors, as again, he and Wayne picked Martin up and took him through the hospital entrance, putting him in the wheelchair Elle had found for him. As Scarlet walked through the hospital entrance, she felt the strange feeling she felt when she left her house earlier. An eerie feeling down a corridor made her look down it, as her eyes were fixed, spiralling down it.

"Scarlet-" her mother said, distracting her from the corridor. "We're going to go look for supplies to help him, can you watch Martin? Janet will stay with you"

Scarlet just nodded as the group scattered off to look for aid. She looked over at Janet, who sat on a chair, repeatedly rubbing her eyes. "What did you mean earlier? It was a monster?". But she never got any reply and Janet just sat staring at the floor.

"Scarlet."

Her name being called caused Scarlet to look around, as once again her eyes turned to the corridor at the left. Now at the end of it, stood her little sister, Claire, alive and well. Scarlet gasped before Claire ran off, "Wait!" she shouted, running down the corridor after her. As she reached the end, she could see Claire running around another corner, and after running to catch her, Scarlet stopped at the sight of blood smeared along the walls.

"Claire? What are you doing?" Scarlet asked, frustrated and scared. A loud moan filled her ears as Scarlet jumped around the corner, finding the floor covered in fresh blood, and folds of skin laid in it. Trying hard not to gag, Scarlet quickly turned around, keeping the skin and blood out of her sight. Another loud moan filled her ears, this time coming from directly behind her. Even though fear filled her, Scarlet turned around and seen a hospital door, room 302 begin to creep open. Wrapping around the door were long sharp claws, covered in blood. Taking steps back, Scarlet was frightened of what would come out of the door, and what was behind it, suddenly gorged, and blooded flesh flew out of the door and hit the wall opposite it hard. Scarlet screamed out and ran down the corridor she came up, running back to the entrance, glad to see Janet still sat on the chair, and the unconscious Martin in the wheelchair.

"Oh god, oh god!" Scarlet cried

"What is it?" Janet asked, looking up at her. "Did you see it?"

"See what?"

"The bogeyman... he did this to Martin, he could of done the same to you..."

Scarlet was about to reply, before her mother and the others returned, holding aid for Martin. Wayne seen Janet talking to Scarlet and walked over to her, holding onto her arm. "We need to talk.", he said, before quickly walking off with her.

"Scarlet? What's wrong?" Dina asked, noticing her daughter's fear.

"I saw something... Claws... Blood... Skin..." Scarlet replied, the images flashing in her head.

"What?"

"I seen Claire, mom.. I seen her"

Dina just shook her head, "Honey, you're tramautized.. Look, we're all confused on what's going on here, why we are the only ones in this city.. But don't let it get to you, just relax, okay?"

Suddenly, the screams of Janet could be heard in the entrance. Everyone looked at one another, as Scarlet ran over and smashed the glass of the fire-box on the wall, pulling out the sharp axe.

"What are you doing?!" Dina snapped

"It could be that thing I saw, killing her! I have to save her"

As Scarlet ran after Janet and Wayne, she ignored the sound of her mother screaming her name.

/

Running down more corridors, Scarlet could hear Janet screaming and sobbing. They got louder and louder, as Scarlet finally bust through a door, reaching a waiting room, where Janet was on the ground, her husband Wayne repeatedly punching and kicking her.

"Get the fuck off of her!" Scarlet screamed

She ran over and tried to pull him off, but he punched her square in the face and she fell onto the ground, the axe falling out of her hand.

"You dumb females! Your all the goddamn same" Wayne snapped

He turned back around to hit Janet, who was staring behind him, her face contorted in terror. He looked confused and also turned around, now being able to see what his wife was seeing. The wall was forming into a black mass, as a inhumane groan of pain echoed around the waiting room. Forming out of the wall, was the most grotesque sight. A being that was about 6ft tall, it stood on it's arms, as attatched to it were dozens of arms that it used to move. It's top half was that of the form of three female stomachs and breasts, gruesomely fused together in a chain, the very top being the face, where hands were sewn over the eyes, and it's mouth was opened wide which was producing the groans. Behind it was another three female bodies, fused together, that was dragged along the ground like a caterpillar, the hands on it broken and contorted as it left stains of blood on the ground.

"No, no..." Wayne cried, "Michelle, please don't do this... Please"

The monster creepily grabbed Wayne with it's dozens of hands as he screamed out. Scarlet grabbed a terrified Janet up, and the two women couldn't help but watch as the monster used it's strength to tear open Wayne, pulling out his vital organs, ripping him apart peice by peice as he cried out for mercy. His blood splashed out onto the ground as did his body parts one by one. The monster let out another gurgling groan of pain from it's mouth as it began to shuffle towards Scarlet and Janet.

"Shit, come on!" Scarlet screamed

She took Janet's hand and the two fled the waiting room, running through the corridors and running from the monster as it still groaned out.

/

Returning to the rest, Scarlet and Janet were both pale and shaking in fear over what they had just witnessed. Scarlet immedieately ran over to Dina and hugged her,

"What happened?" Elle asked

"Michelle killed Wayne.. It's her fucking revenge! It's revenge on all of us"

"Keep your fucking mouth shut!" Lana snapped, slapping Janet across the face. Janet stood up and slapped Lana back, who pushed her up against the wall and began attacking her.

"Stop! There's no need for this" Joe said, grabbing Lana and pulling her off.

The lights in the hospital suddenly all turned off, as the group were plummeted into darkness. Scarlet held onto Dina tightly, as everyone quickly went silent, as there was a sound of something else entering the room.

"It's Michelle," Janet's voice cried

The lights began to flicker, and the shape of a figure leaping from the walls made everyone scream and panic. They kept flickering as the group looked at the figure, leaping from wall to wall and ceiling to the floor.

"Mom!" Scarlet screamed, clutching on tighter. A wet substance splashed over Scarlet and the lights flickered on again, as she seen herself covered in blood and Lana, her throat deeply slashed open and blood squirting out. Scarlet quickly grabbed her mom and ran towards the hospital entrance, as the lights turned off once more, they managed to escape the hospital and out onto the streets. Scarlet cried and wiped off the blood frantically, as soon Janet, Elle and Joe also stumbled out of the hospital entrance, covered in some of Lana's blood.

"What the hell was that?" Joe panicked

"That wasn't Michelle..." Janet replied

The five looked back at the hospital entrance and into the darkness. The doors were thrown open and Martin was thrown out, hitting the concrete hard. He looked up at the group and screamed, and as Joe went to run forward to get him, the creature also walked out of the darkness. It's body was wrapped in folds of cut and shredded skin that was raw and dirty. Shackles around it's ankles were broken, and also the one's around it's wrists. But shackles attatched to it's mouth weren't broken and held open the mouth, where bugs were crawling in and out of. Using the shackles, the creature whipped Martin in the back of the head as it lodged into his skull, and in a moment, it pulled Martin back into the hospital. Everyone looked on in shock as Joe paced backwards,

"Amy..." he whispered to himself.